Published relatively confidential, it will appeal to building owners, public or private, led to change their sorting centers to adapt to the next sorting of household plastic packaging collected in the context of the extension of instructions. But where to start? How to upgrade to a growing fortiori park, totaling nearly 400 units already treating 10 million tonnes of waste handled by the public service?
The stakes are taken head on by ADEME, ecological organizations, federations, industry professionals and elected networks. Many have contributed to this handbook on sorting centers, to read not without some caution since it is purely informative and “do not assume any responsibility of the authors” … Nevertheless learns valuable lessons from the first wave of experiments sorting, extended to plastic containers other than bottles.
The automation of sorting, introduced the note, will indeed be necessary. Just as “the need for further technology”. So simply adapt existing screening tools is not enough. Worse, in cost control perspective, it might even produce the opposite effect … and make them climb! The savings would reach a better level on one condition: to fatten these sorting centers. The savings would be higher than those that could be on the side of the waste transport (for more consolidation of flows). In this sense, this paper encourages building owners, public or private, to think about the “optimal mesh of organization of sorting function” to seek a territorial coherence aiming if necessary “beyond the territory of the community that wastes the skill today. “
Anticipate the evolution of inflows
In the coming years, particularly due to the gradual extension of sorting instructions to all plastic packaging, inflows in these centers will change. With less graphic papers, a risk of increased adverse and nested (eg compacted bottle with a tin), the most contaminated feed before with organic substances, more plastic films … As is a larger heterogeneity “with both larger objects and many more small”. The expected decrease in the density of inflows incentive “not to think only in terms of tonnage but also in volume”, and “to sort new plastic objects very heterogeneous in size and resin”. Low density but increasing incoming volumes: the adaptation of storage areas and conveyors is at stake
Professional Risks
A major change awaits agents. sorting, with “a significant risk of deterioration of working conditions”, due to smaller and more numerous objects. Or increase soil and odors. Hence the contribution to the score of the branch for employment injuries and occupational diseases (ATMP) of the National Health Insurance Fund. The new wave of experiments, Eco-Packaging hopes to increase to 8-10 million more still needs to feed these reflections. This note will be updated end of 2016 to include the capitalization of knowledge from these additional experiments.
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